Inspiration: About

I started this blog to reach out to my friends and family. My favorite historian Dr. Tom Woods recently delivered a speech where he challenged people like me to start our own blogs and YouTube channels.
He said that, since such services are free, we have no excuse not to spread our ideas far and wide.


But perhaps I'm jumping too far ahead.

There is a Revolution coming. It won't be violent, and it hopefully won't involve some madman coming to power. It's a revolution of ideas. Without stealing lines from a much more frightening economist I'd say there is a spectre hovering over the United States.

As a teenager, I picked up a book that would change my life. The book was called The Real Lincoln by the great Thomas Dilorenzo.

This book changed the way I looked at America. It gave me a burning passion for studying history. politics and economics.It made me realize that the propaganda education children in the United States recieve is so much nonsense. Since that day, many years ago, I've read numerous books espousing the virtues of a free society, distrusting everything my teachers taught me. The first purpose of this blog, is to chroncile and review some of the thinkers, books and other media that spread the message of a free society, and that have had a special influence on me.

But there is a second purpose for this blog. One more difficult to accomplish than the first.

It deals with joy. As our military seems to blunder into so many unnecessary conflicts, as our economy seems to teeter on the brink of collapse, as the dollar goes the way of the dinosaur and our civil liberties vanish without any real protest from the masses, things seem grim. Indeed, watching mainstream news can be so disheartening to anyone who has even the faintest notion of what's really going on.

That's why I named this blog Joyous Liberty. I hope to immitate the the wisdom of my predosessors and find the good things in life: in art as well as academia, since not all my posts will be about politics. Some will include movie-reviews, book reviews and current events. I believe anywhere we can fight the good fight, is up for grabs.

So I hope to educate others, re-learn important things and hopefully make you laugh. But I hope that some post here will change your life as well; if you're already on my side...I hope this blog will be that place to go to vent your frustrations and find a little enjoyment once in a while.

Lew Rockwell has pointed out that one of the great fighters for liberty was Murray Rothbard. Far from being a gloom-and-doom fellow (an attitude that would have been justified, given how un-libertarian America was during his lifetime) he was one of the happiest men you would have ever met. All his speeches glow with humor. As Lew says, "It's fun taking on the bad guys," even if you don't win.

So let's imitate Murray in this way, at least. And have a cackling, good time.